Carver High School - Memoirs Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

Text from Pages 1 - 44 of the 1958 volume:

I fm rfb 35243525 5 TWC! Chief! '55 Effie? 7' 5 :MON f I za E3 , gf 1- S2 -f X f Y!-Q - 1 - 15,5 l 4 - , 'flu' Qu l A stiff! X1 1 14 - -' ' 'A fy: 1, A 2: I Yi' BA 'Q' V 'Q ' 1 N p 'V 2 -5 1 I -I ' :M -5 as I ' A ' ,A X 0 ,!7 5 ,az ...fx , an -f . Y - an - , . DEDICATION with our school swiftly closing, we pause to catch a final glimpse of the happiness and friends we've had. Many things have happened during our school's existence that we shall never forget, We find ourselves holding closely to our hearts the fond memories of our past years at Carver High School, The 1958 Memoirs is yours, You made itg we preserved it through word and picture, THE STAFF S PRINCIPAIJS MESSAGE MISS MINNZE H, WOOLFORD TO THE CLASS OF 1958 As I prepare to wrrte thrs brlef message to you the last graduatmg class of the Carver l-hgh School I am strongly remrnded of my message to our frrst class Those young people were graduated s1x months after the brrth of the Atomrc age rn December 1942 You frfteen years later are leavrng us when the age of man made space satellltes rs strll m tts rnfancy Thls age by tts very nature has created tn many peoples of the world only fears doubts loss of farth rn democratrc actron and a frantrc need to quesuon the expedlency of holdmg to the hrgh moral and SPIIIIUBI standards whrch they have establrshed for themselves To others have developed or are developrng an unshakeable belief rn the rmportance of self respect or respect for the rrghts of others of paymg for prrvlleges by acceptrng responsrbrlrtles of grvrng often wrth no thought of recetvrng rn return These are the people who have faxth rn God and who therefore have lrttle reason to fear unduly Sputnrk Communrstrc tactics or anythlng desrgned wlth evrl rntent to overcome good I urge you members of the class of 1958 to alrgn yourselves wrth these people of hrgh rdeals and noble prrnctples and to use all that Carver has offered you through the years to marntaln your posrtlon on the srde of rrght including you, I hope, the age offers a tremendous challenge. These others are the people who I- 6 G . M. 1 'f X im.. V -ev: x X' I Uv- Q . E ., 3, Q 1 E. B1shop R, Crosby A, Gittings 44. G. McDaniel D. Polk R. Quille P04 f f i . fr X FACULTY M. BSHHSII L. Berry I. IOTIUSOH M. Johnson C. Maiden D, Majene J. Staten F. Stith F. Turner J. Watkins 5- Wyatt C. Young CUSTQDIANS STAFF NURSE SECRETARY W. Levere W. Jenkins D. Gwynn D. Tate ...i-4' 1 C. Arnold Q not shown Q CAFETERIA STAFF C. Smith - D. Stokes I L N my 111: ' 2 Y V ' , - ..., ,JAQU ' K I R Rf 1 M4 , , , M. ,f WAI' lx-ry ' , ff- Q Awww is ' , . Q ,V , I S 'Z 1 1 1 r 1 ' A fy f wi f , 'v-ev--a.,,.,,-.K ,,,,. if . xl' 4 Q 'Q A J nf? Q frr, 3 4 pg J: t 6 'xt M3 P THOMAS CHASE Ambitiong Crooner WILLIAM KEATING Ambition: Machinist -5. 4, vig , W. 1,251 ' ef ,- V,,, A. ' M774-5 nl. 'Qfx PEARL JACKSON Ambition: Beautician FANNIE KENTON , Ambition: Machine Operator --ng-my , .. it ...-.nu-up EN Xa SENIQRS E bww I ,, , , , if fr A 75 W' 'J I w ian 1 : H . , f V' ,Q sw 2 W V AVN ww ' f ,V ? 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D. 1 - g - - , A g, , - g, , ' , , , B. , . ' . . X REPRESENTATIVES Lorraine Dorsey Penny Wells Dorothy Johnson Norma Weems Agnes Williams Larry Fields Marvin Redd Clara Beasley Clifford Weems Justina Gregg Thelma Miller Nelson Gwynn Burley Tunnell Lynwood Williams David Brown Noble Brown Paul Plowden Earlene Minor George Weems Margaret Williams STUDENT COUNCIL The Student Council determines how much money the school needs during a school year and devises ways and means of obtaining the needed finance. At the beginning of each school year, the Council receives budget requests from the Administration, athletic department, the various clubs, and all other departments of the school. The group decides on the amount that each department needs for successful operation. In addition to acting upon the requests, the Council also makes provisions for giving scholar- ships and aid to the needy, The result is the school budget for the year. After deciding how much the school will spend in a given year, the Council must then devise a program of money-making activities to balance the budget. The activities sponsored by the Council include a queen contest, dances, dramatic presentations and operettas, The school store, operated by the Council, also aids in obtaining these much needed funds, ATHLETIC CLUBS K MQNITQRS K' LIBRARY CLUB .ffggigf 1:-7 . ,, - . SM. Q- -X DUKES AND DUCHESSES , Q ' 'ff I fwivsffiyzfi Rf' ' ,Q 1 'fl' 343 ,-. A agik ' 5. ' -, I av A ..' . 9 .J I.-. '2--2' 'QQW ,fa ,V yn ff' .,, L Q LL yy? N 'Q' K - 435' k 4? Q , a rf? -ff HQ. ' ff-f 5. ' Q '5 ww 'fir' 'F Q Q n . 6' v A-:du b , , N fx , ,xg ' A ' 5 MQ , , 1. - 4 , y . ff QV ' ' ' , 4.2 15,9 -V ,,,,-is X1 L' J s 'I T , .M l , A c lf Q N482 CI-ICDIR Ah, what fond memories we shall always have of our choir days! Under the guiding hand of Mrs. Louise Berry, many of us have grown from timid first year members to self-assured soloists, while all of us have learned the real meaning of working together, How can we ever think of the many Christmas concerts we gave without thinking of Earline Minor and her tender handling of Sweet Little Jesus Boy , and when shall we forget George Weems, Paul Plowden and Thomas Chase, the Three Musketeers all our tenor section? How those boys loved to harmonize! We worked hard and long during rehearsals, but we forgot all this when we sang for various Commence- ment exercises or went out into the community to perform for such groups as the Towson Presbyterian Church, Towson Junior Women's Club, Towson Methodist Church and Polytechnic Institute. The au- dience's smiles, tears and applause warmed our hearts and served as our rewards. Incidentally, Margaret Williams, our dependable wardrobe mistress, made sure everyone looked just-so before every performance. SENIOR CROONERS In 1954, many of us had the exciting experience of serving as members of the chorus in Belle of the West, a howling musical comedy, The year 1955 saw Earline Minor and Melanese Gwynn, a former Carverite, emerge as the stars of the operetta Sweet Anne Page. They received masculine support from such seniors as James Lowery, Paul Plowden and Thomas Chase. Deciding to put on a show of their own in 1957, the senior girls played both masculine and feminine roles in the operetta The Beauty Contest, All of this has passed for us, but as the beautiful song says, though the words are gone, the melody will forever linger on. 5-1 , ff- ,- ,, CARVER HIGH SCHOOL This building, remodeled ew, M i g - ,x in 1940, housed the elemen- Q E i ' ' 's ' tary school, grades one to , seven, and the high school - -A , grades one to four, In I l addition to the building A K I at the left a portable was used for shop work. fi , ,503 aaa Q S T .V '- -M , , K fx -... sas. - THE One beautiful-autumn morning on the eighth day of Sept- ember, nineteen hundred thirty-nine the first class of Towson High was organized, The class consisted of forty-four excited youngsters. There were twenty-two local and twenty-two non- local pupils. Throughout the first year of the school term, the pupils occupied one room in the elementary school and a portable building. Although the school was small and poorly equipped, the pupils considered the first year of their high school life the happiest. Yes, they were happy that year because they were entering something new and different. This excerpt from the first yearbook, The Pioneer, is char- acteristic of the eighteen year era of Carver High School. THE BEGINNING: This portable plus a room in the elementary school made up the first high school. CLASS 43 g The class of 24 members is shown with the choir, Non-graduates of the choir are dressed in robes. FACULTY 1943 The faculty in nineteen hundred and forty-three was com posed of nine members - five high school teachers, three elementary teachers, and the principal. CARVER STCDRY In nineteen hundred and forty the school was remodeled and enlarged, and new equipment was secured. In April 1943, the school was renamed the George Washington Carver High School. By 1948 the increasing school population forced the school board to look for additional accomodations, Our school now consisted of the old portable building, the main school building, the basement of the St. James Church, and the Odd Fellows Hall, September, 1949, the school moved from Lennox and Chesapeake Avenues to York Road, about three-fourths of a mile below the business district. Many dreams had come true: continued - CLASS 45 Q7 ANNEX: Basement of this church served as a classroom as Carver grew. QL CLASS '48 'wa Fffu.. ' ' 9 b 5' 5 1 a new schoolg an adequate teaching staff, with plenty of classroomsg a combined auditorium, gymnasium and cafeteriag and many new courses By 1956 Carver was again on the verge of becoming over crowded. Tk The school population was over five hundred and the faculty had reached twenty-three. 'I QQ gf ., si sr, kxl 1 V I :gr - G - Many have entered the portals of Carver since its beginning, but only a few of them remained to obtain diplomas. 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